AC 1989-1900 - Ishmael, Isaac: the developement of the rational

AC 1898
. . . there is something of truth adjoined to good which dictates;
afterwards there is good from which or through which the truth is perceived.

AC 1899
. . . that the Lord's Divine rational man is represented by Isaac,
but His first rational man, which was to become Divine, by Ishmael.

AC 1900 [2-3
The influx of the internal person
goes into the knowledges of the exterior person;
affection being the means.
Meanwhile, before there are these knowledges,
there is indeed a communication,
but through affections alone, by which the external person is governed;
but from this there exist only the most general motions, and certain appetites,
also certain blind inclinations, such as show themselves in infants.
But this life becomes by degrees more distinct
in proportion as the vessels of the memory
are formed by means of knowledges,
and the vessels of the interior memory by means of rational things.

But still there is a want of congruity (harmony)
unless the knowledges by which the vessels are formed are truths;
for the celestial and spiritual things of the internal person
find no correspondence for themselves except in truths.
These are the genuine vessels in the organic forms of each memory,
and to which the celestial things of love
and the spiritual things of faith can be fitted in;
for they are there arranged by the Lord
according to the idea and image of the societies of heaven,
or of His kingdom,
insomuch that the person becomes, in least form,
a heaven, or a kingdom of the Lord,
as also the minds of those who are in the celestial things of love
and the spiritual things of faith are called in the Word.
But these things have been said for those who love to think more deeply.